Improvement in waiters for game-tables



Patented Dec. 28, 1875.

UNITED STATES I GEoRGE w. MARBLE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF Hrs PATENT. OEFIGE,

RIGHT TO ADOLPH SHQENINGER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAITERs FO-R GAME-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,624, dated December 28, 1875; application filed November 23, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, GEoRGE W. MARBLE, of Chicago, in the county of (look and State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Game- Table Waiter, of which the following is a specification:

My invention has' for its object to provide, for the convenience of the players, an attachment to a card or gaming table for holding refreshments, checks, and matches, and a receptacle for cigar-ashes, the device being secured to the edge of the table by a lever-clamp, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device as attached to a card-table, a portion of which is shown. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan of the upper plate and its attachments.

In the drawing, A represents a circular wooden plate, to the under side ofwhich is secured an ornamental cast frame, B, whose lower end is branched-into two arms, each of which supports a circular wooden plate, (J.

vD is a forked lever, pivoted to a lug, a, pendent from the center of the top of the frame B, and through the end of said lever is tapped a wing-screw, E, whose upper end bears against the top part of the frame B.

The waiter is attached to a card or other table by resting one edge of the plate A on the edge of said table, so as to bring the fork of the lever D under it, and the said fork is caused to clamp the table by depressing the other end of said lever by means of the screw.

The plate A is used for containing checks,

and the plates 0 O wine-glasses, which are al- 7 GEORGE W. MARBLE. Witnesses:

WM. H. Lorz, WM. G. HOFFMANN. 

